Curtis argued that the spiral nebulas were galaxies in their own right, but said that the Milky Way was only 10,000 light years across. Shapley argued the opposite. Hubble enters the fray Edwin ...

Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious ... His measurements marked the end of the Great Debate about the Milky Way’s size and the nature of the nebulae. Hubble wrote about his discovery to ...

Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious ... His measurements marked the end of the Great Debate about the Milky Way’s size and the nature of the nebulae. Hubble wrote about his discovery to ...

the method Shapley used to measure distances across the Milky Way was critical to Hubble's discovery, and was inherited from the work of a pioneering US astronomer: Henrietta Swan Leavitt . Edwin ...

Yet, a century ago, its discovery by Edwin Hubble opened humanity's eyes as to how large the universe really is, and revealed that our Milky Way galaxy is just one of hundreds of billions of ...

a galaxy), American astronomer Edwin Hubble calculated in 1929 that galaxies were moving away from the Milky Way, All of them, that is, except one — Andromeda. The universe was expanding ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent ... about the structure and evolution of our own Milky Way. "With Hubble we can get into enormous detail about what ...

Both the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies (M31) are part of what's known as the Local Group (LG), which also hosts other ...

That Rich was presenting the story of Edwin Hubble at the January 2025 AAS meeting ... Rich describes the discovery of the universe beyond the Milky Way as being a revelation centuries in the ...

Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious ... His measurements marked the end of the Great Debate about the Milky Way’s size and ...